Our most ancient trees have been alive for thousands of years. They have lived through seismic changes in their landscapes, ecosystems, and climate - and they bear witness to those changes in their rings.
- Valerie Trouet. In the Circle of Ancient Trees. 2025 Riverside Press
Blaze Cyan created ten engravings to illustrate essays by dendrochonologists, discussing the most ancient trees found on our planet, bound together in editor Valerie Trouet's book In the Circle of Ancient Trees. Cyan beautifully depicts each unique tree in fine and delicate detail, their knarled trunks and reaching canopys engraved into woodblock, capturing their timeless existance.
Join us in the studio with Blaze to discuss her process, craft, and fascination with these ancient beheamoths of our natural world.